s\s meso SG

Question 1

city-state

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Cities that are politically independent with their own government, army, and king.

Question 2

conquer

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To take control of an area by force, usually with military power.

Question 3

Ziggurat

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The largest mud-brick building in the center of a city-state. Temples shaped like pyramids and dedicated to the chief god or goddess of the city.

Question 4

Cuneiform

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Form of writing based on making wedge-shaped impressions with reeds and soft clay tablets - 700 wedge-shaped symbols that made up the first written language.

Question 5

Scribe

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People who record things for others.

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Patriarchy

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A form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority. As a result, the men hold the most power.

Question 7

Empire

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Vast lands and varied people brought under the control of one.

Question 8

Irrigation

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A system built to control water.

Question 9

epic

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A long poem is usually centered on a hero.

Question 10

Civilization

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A complex human society is usually made up of different cities, with specific characteristics of culture and technological development.

Question 11

Polytheism

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The belief in many gods.

Question 12

Architecture

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Unique building style or design.

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Deity

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A god who people believed could control nature.

Question 14

Emperor

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The single ruler of an empire.

Question 15

Monarchy

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A system where a king and a queen rules with absolute power

Question 16

Silt

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Small rocks and nutrients carried by rivers that fertilize land after floods

Question 17

Theocracy

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A form of governing in which God or deity is the supreme ruler which is where priests hold an authority role they believe this because they believe in God’s rule of the land and priests were the closest to gods.

Question 18

Hammurabi’s Code

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The first time that laws were written out it consisted of 282 laws.

Question 19

Absolute power

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The way a king rose in which whatever the king decides become law.

Question 20

Sumeria

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3500 to 2300 BCE

Question 21

Sumeria

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Sumeria was the first civilization in Mesopotamia which developed around 3500 BCE.

Question 22

Sumeria

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They relied on annual food to deposit rich soil into the farmland and they controlled water flow by using irrigation and drainage ditches.

Question 23

Religion

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the Sumerians were polytheistic: they believed in many gods.

Question 24

Religion

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They built cigarettes which means temples shaped like pyramids and dedicated them to their chief god where the goddess of the city.

Question 25

Religion

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Samaria was a thecoracy.

Question 26

Religion

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Sumerians created cuniform and needed scribes. They wrote the first epic.

Question 27

Akkadia

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Led by King Sargon aka the first great king because he United the city-states and he conquered all of Mesopotamia creating the world’s first empire.

Question 28

Akkadia

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The Akkadian Empire was the first empire.

Question 29

Babylon

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200 to 1300 BCE

Question 30

Akkadia

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2300-1900 bce

Question 31

Babylon

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Hammurabi was the most well-known Babylonian leader who conquered Northern Sumeria city-states such as Sumer and Akkad to create Babylonian Empire

Question 32

Babylon

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Babylon was the first empire to rule all of Mesopotamia Babylons were well known for their roads which make traveling and trade easier.

Question 33

Babylon

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They are known about Hammurabi’s code and that Babylon fell apart after Hammurabi’s death but it rose again under Chaldeans who were masters at math and astronomy.

Question 34

Assyria

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The land was easy for Outsiders to get into and attack so they became skilled warriors and decided to start rather than be waited to be attacked.

Question 35

Assyria

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Conquer the area from the Nile River (in modern-day Egypt) to pursue Gulf. The most important king saigon II ruled from 722-205 BCE.

Question 36

Assyria

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King Sargon II the second ruled with absolute power: whatever the king decides became law, and they developed a system of communicating with horses and there riders.